Well-Schooled in Murder

Its place in Inspector Lynley

Well-Schooled in Murder is book 3 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Payment in Blood. It is followed by A Suitable Vengeance. See the full Inspector Lynley reading order.

Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, is a Scotland Yard detective who happens to be minor aristocracy — a premise Elizabeth George uses to explore British class friction from the inside, especially through his prickly, working-class partner DS Barbara Havers, whose resentment of and eventual loyalty to Lynley is one of the great slow-burn partnerships in crime fiction. George, an American writing English detective fiction with unusual authority, builds each novel as a dense, doorstop-length literary mystery…